Finding healthy foods can be a challenge

5:19 AM,
Mar. 26, 2013

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With Monday's snowstorm, Ohio might not feel like a desert, but that's what it is for certain low-income families who walk miles with heavy bags of groceries to obtain apples instead of Twinkies.

A newly updated map from the U.S. Department of Agriculture outlines areas where low-income residents must travel more than one mile in urban settings or 10 miles in rural settings to reach a supermarket with healthful foods. These spaces are called food deserts, and they're a blight for residents, government officials and businesses, said Johnnie "Chip" Allen, director of health equity at the ...